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ALVIN BROWN, OF PLAINFIELD, ILLINOIS.

BUILDING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

Application led August 16, 1913. Serial No. 785,090.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALVIN BROWN, a citizenV of the United States, and a resident of Plaineld, in the county of Will and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improved Buildings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to buildings of a type suitable for use in connection with railways, and employed more especially for the purpose of enabling sweepers or other vehicles to discharge refuse directly into cars standing upon railway tracks.

My invention further contemplates a building of this type in which there are provided a number of horizontally disposed movable doors having generally the form of fiat trucks and mounted upon rails at an elevation higher than the railway tracks, and arranged in pairs to be moved apart in order to allow the deposit of material into railway cars, and to be moved back together so as to constitute practically a ceiling over the cars.

My invention further comprehends various improvements in buildings of the general character above mentioned.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like letters indicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a substantially central vertical section through one form of my improved building. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary enlarged section otherwise similar to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 4 is a detail showing in perspective one of the doors each having the form of a truck. Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic plan view of one form of the building. Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic plan of another form of the building. Fig. 7 is a section on line 7-7 of Fig. 1.

A building 7 is provided with walls 8 and with a number of supporting posts 9 distributed substantially equi-distant. The walls 8 and posts 9 are supported upon piers l0, the latter being preferably made of concrete. A number of supporting beams are shown at 11. These beams are secured to cross beams 12, which rest upon the posts 9. Joists 13 rest upon the beams 12, and a flooring 14 rests upon the joists. Cross-ties are shown at 16 and mounted upon the same are railway tracks 17, the latter bein@ of the usual or any desired construction. ovably resting upon `these tracks are railway cars 18 of any desired form suitable for the purpose. :It street is shown at 19; that is, a roadway tormmg a part of a street, and which is located at a somewhat higher level than the tracks 17 Extending from the ends of the building and adjacent the ioor thereof are housings 20, each covered by a flat roof 21. On one side of the building I provide a thick wall S and a number of vertically slidable doors 22 which move in slots 23 within the walls, as indicated in Fig. l. Between consecutive doors are wall sections 8a. Engaging the beams 11 are brackets 27 and engaging these brackets are rails 28. These rails are spaced slightly from the beams 11 as may be understood from Fig. 2. Bolts 29 extend through the brackets 27 and adjacent beams 11, so as to support the brackets and rails carried thereby. The bolts 30 extend not only through the brackets 27 but also through the rails 28 and through the beams 11. The bolts 30 thus hold the rails upon the brackets and assist in holding the brackets upon the beams. The beams l1 are in this instance of composite structure, and extending vertically through them are bolts 3l.

The horizontally disposed doors are shown at 33 and are of a form which may be readily understood from Fig. 4, each of these doors resembling in appearance a flat truck and being provided with a pair of axles 34 upon which are mounted wheels 35, the latter being adapted for engagement with the rails 28 so as to support the door 33 thereupon. The doors 33 are arranged in pairs as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3.

In the form shown in Fig. 6, the street or roadway 19 extends crosswise of the tracks 17. This enables vehicles having debris or rubbish to enter the building, by passing through the doors 22 which may, if desired, be closed after the vehicles are thus admitted. The vehicles after being admitted are driven along over different pairs of doors and the intervening flooring, adjacent the particular car 18 in which the material carrled by the vehicle is to be deposited, a pair of the doors 33, above the car in question, are moved apart and the material is dumped between them and into the car. The doors are then closed. Laborers standing in the cars attend to the distribution of the material.

The form shown in Fig. 5 differs from the one shown in Fig. 6 in that the building is longer, and faces a street for a considerable distance-preferably the length of an entire block.

I do not limit myself tothe precise construction shoWn as variations may be made therein Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

A building provided in its lower portion With supporting beams and with end housings, a ooring supported by the beams on a level with the said end housings and having door openings, spaced tracks mounted on the beams below the flooring, and doors having Wheels disposed to travel on the said 15 tracks, said doors extending flush With the surface of the flooring and certain thereof being movable into the said housings.

ALVIN BROWN. Witnesses:

CHARLES I. MCNELT, JOSEPH REID.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

